No Longer at Ease

The Nigerian culture, full of richness and charisma around its citizens and leaders. The novel written by Chinua Achebe puts its focus on the rituals and customs of nine Nigerian villages, among them the most important one Umuofia. Umuofia is home to the bravest warrior of all nine villages, Okonkwo a strong leader with few weaknesses, but one that impacts his whole life driving him into physical and mental misery. Life is never perfect, and Okonkwo served as a tragic her. Okonkwo’s traits and…

Okonkwo has a distorted perception on what it means to be “a man”, as shown by his relationship with his father, Unoka, causing him to display aggressive tendencies to avoid being seen as meek. Okonkwo’s thought of his father, Unoka, as weak leads to his twisted perception on what it means to be “a man”, resulting in his aggressive behavior towards weak mean. As Okonkwo was growing up, his father became more feeble, and the community started to take notice. Near the middle of Chapter Two, the…

In the novel “Things fall apart” by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo was a brave, respected, intimidating, and wealthy man. He had a severe look, with a wide nose and bushy eyebrows, and “seemed to walk on springs”(4). Although Okonkwo was highly respected by the villagers they still thought he was unsympathetic. Okonkwo believed that anyone who was not succeeding was doing. So due to the lack of trying he did not believe those people deserved very much respect because of all the hard work he had to put…

Money isn’t the world in “Civil Peace” When a person has an enormous amount of money, do they have true friends or are they fake friends? Many people decide to want to be friends with a prosperous person in order to obtain money from them; however, others use wealthy people so they will be given gifts. It is typical of others to be envious and want things that others can't have. Wealthy people are often betray by other people which is sad and is disappointing to see others being used…

Conflicts can happen anytime and anywhere. The conflict can be anything from not agreeing with someone to having a serious vehicle wreck. The most important thing during a conflict is to keep your cool and have a good attitude during the situation, even if it wasn't caused by your doing. Afterwards you still need to keep your cool so that you don't say or doing anything stupid. In Things Fall Apart there are many, many conflicts. These conflicts mainly resort around the main character, Okonkwo.…

Even at birth you can be dealt the wrong hand and expected to become nothing in this world. Some people will eventually succumb to these thoughts, but others will use this as motivation. In the novel, “Things Fall Apart” written by Chinua Achebe, the main character decides to use his father’s failure as a method to triumph over adversity. It takes the judgement of others and one bad example to drive someone to become successful. For Instance, Okonkwo -the protagonist- was raised in the tribe of…

Abuse is an unhealthy element in American society, but that is not the case everywhere else. All over the globe abuse is a regular, and common thing. Males are superior over women. This is the way in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Okonkwo is hot-headed and often takes it out on his wives and children. He hits them, points guns at them, and even kills them. He came from a bum of a father, and became different. He made a big name for himself and became respected in his village. From this…

Okonkwo and his Virtues and Flaws Okonkwo is a man filled with many virtues and of course many flaws. Many of the mistakes he makes educates him to become a more virtuous man, but his unacceptable flaws that cause poison to the story, are not forgotten. In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo’s life is explained through the mistakes he makes and finds that many things aren’t meant to be the way he wants them to be, explaining the title Things Fall Apart. Okonkwo only tries his…

The history of Russia has gone through numerous drastic phases, with the transition from an autocracy to communism, and a communist regime to a relatively democratic state, just to name a few. The tragedy that befell the last ruling Romanov family has long been blamed on the Bolsheviks, with just cause, but the demise of the Romanovs began many years prior to the Bolshevik emergence. Historical writings have shown us that interpretations and biases can overtake the writing. It causes monumental…

Devastating Lesson Ikemefuna gives out a perspective of the character’s life such as the many things Nwoye has to go through in a day along with Okonkwo’s pride with the consequences they have to face. He was a role model to Nwoye and a son to Okonkwo. The character, Ikemefuna, from the book, Things Fall Apart serves a role as someone who holds the father son relationship between Okonkwo and Nwoye and gives a new change to the family. Topic sentence- Firstly, Someone that is to be loved by…